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White Stripes, White Dwarfs, White Noise

November 4, 2009

Jack White’s Third Man Records is releasing a song that includes vocals by Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Created by the composer John Boswell, the song, “A Glorious Dawn,” mixes spoken-word passages from Sagan (who would have turned seventy-five this year) and Hawking; it’s connected to Boswell’s overall project, The Symphony of Science, which attempts to teach science through music. Below is another of Boswell’s efforts, this one featuring Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye.

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